{"id":921,"date":"2014-04-03T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2014-04-03T04:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T08:44:42","slug":"ascension-of-persephone-april-3-ancient-holiday-with-esoteric-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Ascension of Persephone, April 3 Ancient Holiday with Esoteric Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Awakening formerly called The Return (of Persephone and of Spring) by Jonathan Earl Bowser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Attention devotees of the Divine Feminine, aka God-ess. \u00c2\u00a0She is Returning today! April 3rd is an ancient holiday marking the ascension from “hell” of Persephone. \u00c2\u00a0Like Jesus Christ, she descended into Hell, but she did it every year in Fall with the “death” of the growing season. \u00c2\u00a0Then on April 3rd, she is “resurrected” and ascends to rejoin her mother, the Earth who has been mourning for her and refusing to produce all winter. This ancient holy day is part of the Spring Equinox season which begins nowadays on March 20 and goes to the 3rd.<\/p>\n

This painting by famed Goddess artist Jonathan Earl Bowser used to be called simply the Return, but now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called the Awakening. \u00c2\u00a0I like \u00c2\u00a0both titles since the latter implies a spiritual awakening alongside the physical \u00e2\u20ac\u0153awakening\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the fertile mother earth. Look for the hidden symbols in the painting, such as the DNA spiral, the astrological symbol for the earth (circle with a dot inside). Persephone is treading on water, on lily pads where lotus flowers will soon grow.<\/p>\n

This is also the first picture in my God Has a Wife online slide show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below is a list of other esoteric alternative holy days for this first week of April. \u00c2\u00a0Buddha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday comes this week, also.<\/p>\n

And be ready for the Goddess of Fate day on the 5th. “May Fortuna Smile Upon You!” was the ancient Greek and later Roman greeting today (and all week). \u00c2\u00a0If you were an ordained priest or priestess of God-the-Mother you would greet everyone thusly, generating the response, “And upon you!”<\/p>\n

Esoteric, Alternative Holy Days for First Week of April<\/p>\n

April 1 thru 4<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Iroquois Thunder Ceremony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c In thanksgiving for the rains. Iroquois believe Sky Woman descended from the Sky and Created Earth.<\/p>\n

April 2 thru 10<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hindu Festival honoring Maha Devi as Gauri \u00e2\u20ac\u201c life, growth, and fruition.<\/p>\n

April 3<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0– the Ascension of Persephone
\n– \u00c2\u00a0Buddha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Birthday \u00c2\u00a0563 BCE (Although the Zen Buddhists celebrate his birthday on the 8th of April)<\/p>\n

April 4<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Greek Megalesia of Cybele \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Games dedicated to the Great Mother (Greek).<\/p>\n

April 5<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0– Roman Day of Fortuna \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Goddess of Fate (Roman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attention devotees of the Divine Feminine, aka God-ess. \u00c2\u00a0She is Returning today! April 3rd is an ancient holiday marking the ascension from “hell” of Persephone. \u00c2\u00a0Like Jesus Christ, she descended into Hell, but she did it every year in Fall with the “death” of the growing season. \u00c2\u00a0Then on April 3rd, she is “resurrected” and … Continue reading Ascension of Persephone, April 3 Ancient Holiday with Esoteric Meaning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[242,215,241],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sacred-feminine","tag-fortuna","tag-god-the-mother","tag-persephone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}